Impacts of Varied Durations of Treatments and Masses of Sesame Plant on Some Soil Nutrients of Sabon Kaura, Bauchi Nigeria

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Adebayo, R.K., Hassan, U.F., Adamu, H.M.1, Ajiya, D.A., John D.S., Baba, Haruna. and Hassan, A.F.


Abstract

 Returning plant residues into the soil can enhance the availability of nutrients, conservation of water and storage. This experiment was conducted to determine the impacts of incorporation of sesame residue on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), Soil Organic Matter (SOM), Soluble Salts (SS) and Total Exchangeable Acidity (TEA) of soil from Sabon Kaura-Bauchi, after varied treatment periods (0, 2, 4 and 6 months).  It was found that the impacts of plant residue vary with the amount of residue applied. A complete randomized design was used and it comprised of four treatments.  Neither water nor the organic residue of Sesame plant was added to the 0 day treatment (control). Each treatment was replicated four times and contained 1.00 kg of the soil sample incubated for two, four and six months with organic residue of Sesame plant.  A volume of 100.00 cm3 of distilled water was added to the three different set ups of two, four and six months treatments. Soil samples were taken from the treatments at the end of each incubation period and analysed for TEA, SOC, SOM and soil soluble salts using standards analytical methods. The observed values showed that addition of organic residue of Sesame plant increases the levels of soil parameters from the control to six months treatment in the following trend. SOC (%): 0.50-7.50, SOM (%): 0.80-4.50. A negative impact was recorded on the concentrations of TEA (5.40-3.00 cmol/kg) and SS (3000.00-1300.00 mg/kg) due to the addition of Sesame residue. All the parameters were found to be statistically different (p ≤ 0.05) with the exception of SOM, using Double factor Analysis of Variance and Least Significance Difference Test (LSD). It is therefore recommended that the organic residue of Sesame plant can be used to improve the soil organic matter, organic carbon and reduce total exchangeable acidity and soluble salts of the soil investigated.


Keywords

Sesame plants, randomized design, total exchangeable acidity, soluble salts, soil organic carbon, soil organic matter, analysis of variance and least significant difference.



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